Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll still be worth exactly the same amount , but the company will have more working capital . ’ |
| 2 | My mother hovers on the brink of life , not knowing whether her heroic struggle will be worth even a fraction of the effort she expends . |
| 3 | They must be worth quite a bit — in America . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're famous all over the Far East , so a story about how you kept a secret concubine in Taipei should be worth quite a bit . ’ |
| 5 | So you 'll be worth quite a bit dead ? |
| 6 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 7 | There will be times when a fish bait will be the best way of catching big bream , but it will never be the best way all the time , or even most of the time . |
| 8 | In addition to personal financial interests , there may be times when a councillor has a personal interest in a matter other than a financial one , which may influence his consideration of that matter . |
| 9 | Occasionally , the teacher will make use of Forum Theatre techniques ; and there will certainly be times when a small group of children will be working in front of the class in a spontaneous improvisation . |
| 10 | If the newspapers did not investigate criminals , MPs , businessmen and others , there would be times when no one did . |
| 11 | There will be times when the movement will be in reverse . |
| 12 | Marketing is about responding , but there must be times when the response will be in the negative . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , where land is cropped regularly , there are bound to be times when the soil life is reduced or inhibited to a point where it fails to rebuild the damaged structure . |
| 14 | When assessing the financial rewards , it is wise to assume that there will be times when the accommodation is empty — so you will not be receiving any rent . |
| 15 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 16 | With processors galloping at 66MHz it means that there will be times when the processor is held back waiting for a slow peripheral to catch up . |
| 17 | But the long-term trend in those areas in which the public interest in regulation ( or possibly politicians ' exposure to public criticism ) is perceived to be greatest , seems to be for both the volume of regulation and the role of government in it to increase . |
| 18 | It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’ |
| 19 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
| 20 | It wo n't be for about a year and a half though . |
| 21 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
| 22 | The puzzles will be of both a theoretical and experimental nature . |
| 23 | This requires the completion of a substantial piece of work which can be of either a practical or research nature , prepared within a strict timetable and documented and presented to an appropriate professional standard . |
| 24 | If the claims were made simply on the basis of introspection without systematic observation in the community , they would be of precisely the same order ( except that they would be unaccountable and probably much less reliable ) . |
| 25 | Another point to remember is that if all four pictures are to sit comfortably together in the overall design , then all the material used should be of roughly the same size . |
| 26 | It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration . |
| 27 | Yet this apparently admirable material proved to be of almost no use to the party . |
| 28 | We are losing our liberties and our heritage and he declared ‘ I tremble what Ulster will be like when the children in our homes reach the years I have reached . |
| 29 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 30 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |